Serial crook with 54 points on licence is still driving

CARMAGEDDON: Keith Baldock was allowed to keep driving through a DVLA oversight [FACEBOOK]

Keith Baldock is believed to be the only motorist in the UK still on the road with over 50 points.

The legal limit is 12 points before disqualification but blunders ­allowed Baldock, 34, to keep driving. The jobless tyre fitter, left, has a string of previous convictions, including a one-year ban in 2010 for drink-driving.

Last November the dad of two, of Herne Bay, Kent, was given 30 points for five separate offences ­after being convicted of driving without insurance and stealing fuel from five cars. At the time Judge ­Nigel Van Der Bijl at Canterbury Crown Court was unaware Baldock already had 24 points.

The judge allowed him to keep driving as Baldock claimed he needed his car to look for work.

This week the DVLA realised he should have been banned.

But a Crown Prosecution Service application for a “variation of sentence” failed as it was outside the 56-day deadline from conviction.

Francis Lloyd, prosecuting, told the court: “He should have been disqualified unless there was exceptional hardship.”